Top five reasons Dell Boomi’s
multi-purpose PaaS is right
for your company
What is multi-purpose PaaS?
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a cloud-
based model where a provider delivers
a specific software application over
the internet as a service to users. In
this model, the provider hosts and
maintains all of the necessary hardware
and software, freeing customers from
this responsibility and cost burden.
The customer, in turn, pays a monthly
subscription fee.
Multi-purpose PaaS is a fairly new
addition to, and a natural progression
of, the PaaS category. It allows for the
delivery of more than one functionally
specific application on a single
common platform. The benefits of a
multi-purpose platform to end users
include increased efficiencies, lower
total cost of ownership, faster time to
value and economies of skill.
Dell Boomi’s award-winning
multi-purpose platform includes
AtomSphere for application integration,
master data management (MDM)
and API management (management
of application programming interfaces).
Each of these solutions may be
used stand-alone or in concert with
one another.
The top five reasons
Now that you are armed with an
understanding of PaaS and some
of its intrinsic benefits, here are the
top five reasons why Dell Boomi’s
multi-purpose PaaS may be right for
your company.
1. It scales to your company’s needs
and growth
One of the primary benefits of most
PaaS solutions is scalability. Specifically,
you can adjust the functionality to
scale to the needs of your business,
especially when your company’s
needs grow, in affordable and
predictable ways, but without taking
on the expense and responsibility
for onboarding and maintaining the
hardware and software that must run
smoothly behind the scenes.
The scalability of Dell Boomi’s
multi-purpose PaaS comes in many
possible configurations, including:
• Flexible deployment: You always
have the flexibility to use the
AtomSphere, MDM or API Management
functionalities of the Dell Boomi
multi-purpose PaaS, in any
combination, at any time. Additionally,
the Dell Boomi PaaS supports
integration processes across any
combination of cloud and on-premises
applications, all of which can be
deployed securely in the cloud or
behind a firewall. Dell Boomi MDM can
be used in tandem with other elements
of the PaaS or on its own for defining
and deploying master data models, as
well as synchronizing and governing
master data, to create golden
records — all on a single platform.
• A broad set of connectors to enable
integration between any combination
of applications. Pre-built connectors
make it simple to integrate virtually
any application quickly and to add
integrations with other applications
over time. For instance, your company
may already be automating business
processes with integration between
Salesforce Sales Cloud and another
cloud-based enterprise resource
planning (ERP) application, and now
wants to add subscription billing
and human capital management
applications. Connectors allow
these integrations — and for additive
integrations — to be implemented
quickly and easily at any time.
• A proven, single instance multi-
tenant infrastructure: Dell Boomi’s
platform is architected to ensure high
availability and performance with
no single point of failure. As of June
2015, the platform was executing an
average of 25 million processes per
 day with guaranteed 99.99 percent
availability. See trust.boomi.com for
more information.
• Economies of skill: Managing multiple
platforms not only requires additional
employees with specialized skills
and training, but it is also time- and
cost-intensive. Dell Boomi provides
application integration, MDM and API
management on a single, easy-to-use
platform, minimizing ramp up and
training requirements for your team.
The intuitive visual design interface
and library of pre-built connectors
and processes further simplifies and
accelerates ramp-up time.
2. Crowdsourcing improves
integration efficiencies, reduces risk
In addition to Dell Boomi AtomSphere’s
patented user interface, which is
designed for ease of use, the platform
also offers the following crowdsourced
best practice features that no other
integration solution can offer, providing
you with assurances by speeding time
to value and lowering the cost
of integration:
• Boomi Suggest anonymously indexes
data mappings across all users on
the Dell Boomi platform. This means
that almost 90 percent of the data
mappings that you need to create have
already been successfully mapped
by others and will be offered as
options for you to consider during the
configuration process. This feature
alone can shorten the implementation
process from months and weeks to
days and hours.
• Boomi Assure allows for
crowdsourced regression testing.
You can submit integration processes
and test data to AtomSphere from
within the console. That test data
will then be run against every future
AtomSphere release. Dell Boomi won’t
release new versions of AtomSphere
until all regression tests are completed
and passed. With Boomi Assure, you
can feel confident that updates to
the platform will not break your
integration processes.
• Boomi Resolve automatically suggests
resolutions for common error
messages based on crowdsourced
contributions from both the Boomi
support team and the user community,
and, importantly, it becomes more
intelligent and helpful as issues
are identified and solutions are
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recommended. Easily accessible
through the Boomi AtomSphere
interface, Boomi Resolve automatically
lists possible solutions in order of
relevancy and includes links to full
knowledge base articles for further
explanation and suggested resolution.
This feature alone can save you
valuable implementation time.
The outcome is that crowdsourced
best practices — made possible by Dell
Boomi’s single instance, multi-tenant
platform — improve efficiencies and
reduce risk.
3. Business process automation
facilitates data sharing across
applications, organizations
It’s not uncommon for organizations
or business units within the
same company to use redundant
applications, or to share data across
line-of-business applications to
systems that are only used at the
headquarters level. These scenarios
describe business processes that
can be automated with the help of
a scalable integration platform as a
service (iPaaS) such as AtomSphere.
Additionally, an iPaaS can be a
simple-yet-elegant, cost-effective way
to augment existing integration work
that was done in the past, either with
an on-premises solution or via hard
coding, both of which can be costly
and cumbersome to unravel
and replace.
An iPaaS that is one component
of a multi-purpose PaaS solution,
however, is even more nimble in these
scenarios. This type of iPaaS allows for
the expanded use of other aspects of
the platform — such as MDM or API
management — if and when that
type of functionality is needed, and
without the complication of working
with yet another vendor, platform or
user interface.
4. Multi-purpose PaaS centralizes
synchronization, consolidation
and governance of data
across applications
A multi-purpose PaaS allows for not
only the integration of data from
multiple applications, but it also offers
a critical layer of data synchronization,
consolidation and governance, as well.
This type of data mastering provides
synchronization across all silos, which
allows companies of all sizes to
confidently make data-driven decisions
while improving governance and
compliance, increasing the ability to
up-sell and cross-sell, and enhancing
the customer experience.
MDM can be especially useful for
companies in heavily regulated
industries such as healthcare/life
sciences/pharmaceuticals and financial
services as it provides governance and
compliance essential to data-related
regulatory requirements and demand.
5. APIs modernize your legacy
applications and enable your
mobile strategy
APIs are an essential component of the
technology industry movement known
as the hybrid cloud or hybrid IT model.
Many experts and analysts, including
Enterprise Management Associates,
have stated that APIs are “one of the
most important elements underlying
industry megatrends such as mobile
computing and social media” and
they “will be indispensable building
blocks supporting the growing Internet
of Things (IoT).” Simply stated, most
companies are developing, using or
making APIs available for consumption
by third parties. Effectively creating,
governing and managing the ever-
growing number of APIs has emerged
as a key business requirement.
Dell Boomi simplifies API management
through the entire API lifecycle while
also ensuring comprehensive security.
APIs can be created through a simple
visual interface, without the need for
coding, and published on-premises or
in the cloud. The reporting dashboard
within the platform enables centralized
monitoring and control of your
API environment.
With Dell Boomi’s API management,
your IT department can seamlessly
support business initiatives by making
relevant data accessible to key internal
and external stakeholders. Legacy
application data can be unlocked
for easy consumption by modern
applications, providing requisite data
to mobile applications and external
parties such as your partners, vendors
and customers. API management can
even analyze and act on real-time data
on connected devices (IoT).
Is it right for your company?
As you can see from the five reasons
stated above, there is substantial
benefit to adopting Dell Boomi’s
multi-purpose PaaS. The questions that
remain are:
• Is the Dell Boomi platform right for
your company?
• How can you be sure that the Dell
Boomi platform can meet your
company’s needs?
The best way to get these questions
answered is to spend some time with
a Dell Boomi expert who can answer
your questions in detail. Contact a
Dell Boomi Expert >
In the meantime, you can also learn
more from industry experts, such as
those noted below:
Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Enterprise Integration Platform as a
Service, Worldwide
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